GAMBIER, Ohio – The Kenyon Ladies basketball team (5-1, 2-0 NCAC) held Denison University to its lowest shooting percentage of the season on Wednesday in a 55-45 North Coast Athletic Conference game at Tomsich Arena.
Denison (2-4, 0-1 NCAC) never shot above 37 percent in any quarter and ended up finishing with a 28.8 percent clip.
Leading the way was
Paige Matijasich who tied for the game-high with 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds.
Jessica Gerber registered 12 points and contributed as many assists as the Big Red dished out in the game (7). Additionally,
Lane Davis turned in a strong second-half performance with eight points, nine rebounds and three assists. Rounding out the team's contributors was
Sharon Hull who tacked on eight points, six boards, three steals and three assists.
First-quarter action saw Kenyon score the first half-dozen points after a Hull jumper at the 7:35 mark. Hull then pushed the home team's lead to eight, 14-6, with another shot at 3:31. Denison responded with a 7-0 run before
Grace Connery's three-ball with under a second left moved the Ladies up four, 17-13.
In the second, the Ladies turned up their three-point shooting to take a double-digit halftime lead. Matijasich got Kenyon's first long ball of the quarter before Connery struck again at 5:56 to move Kenyon's lead to 23-17. Then in the final 2:02, Gerber drained a pair while
Ellie Schaub got the last with eight seconds left to push the scoreboard to 34-23.
That hot shooting did not return to the Ladies in the third, though, as the team hit just 1-of-12 (8.3%). On the other side, Denison scored 15 of the quarter's 19 points and tied the game at 38. That tying bucket came from Lauren Hofer at 1:45 which capped off a 15-2 run.
In the final period, Kenyon refocused, scored the first eight points of the period, and held the visitors to just seven points on 3-of-11 shooting. Gerber had a pair of three-balls in the fourth while Davis added three makes to help the Ladies pull away.
Next on the schedule for Kenyon is a conference home date on December 1 against DePauw University (3-2) at 1 p.m.
